Health Care Systems Unify Active Directory environments on Merger Day One

Two nonprofit health systems serving over 1.5 million residents across the Northeast U.S. merged to create a new organization with seven hospitals, more than 2,600 physicians and 18,500 employees. They needed to be able to work as one team starting on Day 1 of the merger to ensure that the communities they serve had uninterrupted access to treatments, technology, services and top-notch physicians and care teams.

Because healthcare is a highly regulated industry, mergers require significant preparation and highly coordinated resources to ensure the merger is completed timely, securely and with little to no impact on the user community. Therefore, the company engaged Binary Tree Professional Services to deliver a proof-of-concept for a merger integration project and then followed up with a project to help the new company establish user collaboration across the corporate boundaries for Day One.